Maître Brice Pescheteau-Badin
300
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PAIR OF desk candlesticks in shagreen*, mounted in 925 silve…
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300
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PAIR OF desk candlesticks in shagreen*, mounted in 925 silve…
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €2,000
Voluntary lot
Description
PAIR OF desk candlesticks in shagreen*, mounted in 925 silver, resting on four legs with leaf-shaped finials, the square base decorated with silver laurel garlands, the shafts in the form of cylindrical columns, the silver candle holders with beaded rims, (damage, missing parts)
Silversmith: Samuel Jacob,
London, 1908,
Height: 12 cm.
*Specimen made from the dermis of a stingray (galuchat) of the Dasyatidae family, of the species known as the ‘pointed-nose stingray’* or, synonymously, the ‘white-spotted whipray’ (Maculabatis gerrardi)
*Species not regulated under the Washington Convention (CITES) or by EC Regulation 338/97 of 9 December 1996 or the French Environmental Code.
For a similar example, see the sale of 1 February 2011, lot 407 (sold for GBP 3,000) at Christie’s.
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